Life is Good

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

As you probably already know, today we had a thunderstorm. Big, dark clouds; rain; lightning; and wind. All told, it was rather beautiful in my opinion.

Anyways, like I said, it was a thunderstorm, and what do you know, shortly after I got home and had sat down to relax for a few minutes and watch some TV, that the lights flicker. It didn't seem to be anything particularly wrong, until a few seconds later, lightning strikes within a kilometer of out house.

You know how lightning is usually depicted on television, in books and in comics? Well I can honestly say that no depiction of lightning that I have ever seen can truly capture that much power. I will give it a go by telling more or less exactly what happened when it hit.

All I saw was red, the entire room obscured by a blinding red light. The noise was incredible, and went on for what was probably only a few seconds, but felt like nearly a minute. My heart was racing, and I found that I was in an even better mood than I was before. Not that the same could be said for Adam and Daria, who were scared witless, so I had to call Dad to be sure that they were alright. When Mom showed up, she helped with the two and told me more or less where the lightning struck. I then stuck my head out the door, and smelt ozone. It smelt, burnt for lack of a better term.

I wanted to post this in my blog, but then I found out that our internet connection was down, so I couldn't do much.

Then, after Dad had shown up, left with Adam and Daria for a meeting in Reddeer, Uncle Donnie showed up, asking to use the phone. Apparently, there was a gas leak near his house, so he needed our phone, a ways away from the noxious fumes, to call the city about it. Shortly after, emergency vehicles arrived, and Mom and I went to go get dinner while we waited out the repair job.

Then we went to the library, and I read an actual book for the first time in a while. Not a magazine, or some story posted online, nor was it a manga, it was an honest to goodness, paper, hardcover, words, little to no pictures. It was good. Then we went home and I decided to write this whilst waiting for Dad to come home and fix the connection.

Addendum, I actually did write this yesterday, but I was unable to post cause the net was down. It's all good now. Also, today I found out that the lightning struck the tree in front of our house. Talk about a close call.